Haitian Revolution | Revolisyon Ayisyen - "Liberté ou la mort"

“The world’s first anti-colonial revolution took place in Haiti. The 1804 Haitian Revolution posed a serious threat to the plantation economies of the Americas, which relied upon enslaved labour from Africa, and so the US led a process to suffocate it and prevent it from spreading. Through US military interventions across Latin America and the Caribbean, the Monroe Doctrine prevented the rise of national self-determination and defended plantation slavery and the power of the oligarchies. Nonetheless, the spirit and promise of the Haitian Revolution could not be extinguished, and in 1959 it was reignited by the Cuban Revolution, which in turn inspired revolutionary struggles across the world.” ~ Vijay Prashad

Black unisex t-shirt bearing a portrait of Haitian Liberator Toussaint Louverture beneath the revolutionary bicolour. Inspired by Loring Eutemey's 1963 cover art for C.L.R. James' "The Black Jacobins."

Garment: Bella+Canvas

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